San Francisco County Biographies
DENIS MC CARTHY
Transcribed by Marilyn R. Pankey.
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Was a young man when he came from Massachusetts to San Francisco,
California, and his sterling character and distinctive ability ultimately gained
to him a place of prominence in connection with business enterprise in this
city. Mr. McCarthy was in the very prime of his strong and useful manhood at
the time of his death, which occurred in December, 1884.
Denis McCarthy was born in County Cork, Ireland, September 26, 1844, and
thus was forty years of age at the time of his death. He was an infant at the
time of his parents' immigration to the United States and was reared and
educated at Milford, Massachusetts, where also he learned the trade of shoe
making. In the early '60s he came to San Francisco and here found employment in
his trade in the establishment of Buckingham & Heck. Eventually he became the
organizer of the United Working Men's Boot and Shoe Company, of which he
continued the treasurer and general manager until his death. The manufacturing
enterprise of this company was initiated in a small store building on Golden
Gate Avenue, the company having been incorporated in the year 1867. With
increasing business a factory was erected on Sansom Street, and later was
erected the present large and well equipped factory at the corner of
Twenty-fifth and Bartlett streets, where the business is successfully continued,
the only surviving son of Mr. McCarthy being now the principal owner of the
business.
Mrs. McCarthy long survived her husband and was venerable in years at the
time of her death, in 1918. Her maiden name was Catharine C. Daly, she having
been born in Ireland, but having been reared and educated in the City of Boston,
Massachusetts. She was a young woman at the time of the family removal to San
Francisco, where her father, Daniel Daly, engaged in the work of his trade, that
of carpenter. Here the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy was solemnized and
here Mrs. McCarthy continued to maintain her home until her death, both she and
her husband having been devout communicants of the Catholic Church. Of the
children, the eldest, Daniel, died in the year 1900; William H. is manager and
chief owner of the business of the United Working Men's Boot and Shoe Company,
of which his father was the founder; Mary is the wife of John F. Cunningham of
San Francisco and Robert S. died in 1902.
Source: "The San Francisco Bay Region" by Bailey Millard Vol. 3 page 126-127.
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.